oth volunteering and working with Urban Ed, Inc. can be a very rewarding experience. We are an organization that looks for creative people that are committed to making a noticeable change in low-income minority communities and the individuals that live there.

Current Volunteering Opportunities:

• Tutoring and Training Teens
  Youth within the District of Columbia's Public Schools (DCPS) system continue to face academic shortfalls. Urban Ed is now a vetted partner with DCPS and seeks volunteers to help us develop fun but challenging afterschool activities that will strengthen youths' career and workplace skills as well as academic skills. If you are strong in math, writing, like using technology to learn and care about helping disadvantaged teens ages 14-17 prosper we want you to join our team. Volunteers are needed at various times between 4:00pm - 8:00pm, Tuesday - Friday.

• Technology Training with Young Adults
  Urban Ed utilizes professionals from within the technology field to aid us in delivering training in our technology-focused programs. This adds an element of real-life to our training that our participants need. Trainers should anticipate being interactive and animated in their delivery. Our current areas of need include trainers to assist us with delivery on A+, MCDST, MCITP (Windows 7), Networking, HDI training, and help desk software training.
  
  Trainings are conducted during the day, between 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, Tuesday - Friday. If you have some level of tech skills or feel comfortable training and interacting with young adults between 18-30 we really need your help! You will gain valuable teaching skills and make a measurable difference in the lives of the unemployed.

  
  
• Guest Speakers/Mini-Workshops
  A key component to our technology training is our life skills component. During these valuable sessions we ask that leaders in the community from an array of disciplines come and provide insights, information, and motivation to our young people. We are eager for positive role models to come in and deliver constructive messages to aid our youth in negotiating the many life challenges they face as teenagers and young adults. These short sessions are generally only one to two hours in length. Generally, the sessions will occur between the hours of 5 pm - 7 pm on a weekday evening.

Some of the speaking and workshop topics that we need help with include (we are open to other ideas):


• The Truth About HIV/AIDS
• Peer Pressure: Back off Me?
• Why Get High?
• Rap Session on Family Relations & Abuse
• Keeping Conflict on Lock
• Anger Management
• Social Justice and Community Organizing
• Dangers of Social Media
• Get Money, Save Money, Invest Money-Financial Planning
• Learning Basic Spanish
• Networking to Get a Job
• Resumes That Win You Interviews
• Interviewing Skills that Win You Jobs
• Business Talk - Communication Skills for the Workplace

• Field Trip Hosts
  Urban Ed needs corporate leaders to host our youth participants at their site. We do this to expose our youth to the "real world of work" and let them explore different career options up close and personal. Hosting us simply means having our youth come to you and your staff and the CEO or upper management briefly present to them what your company does, how to enter the field and the expectations, and how some of the staff and the leadership started and built the company or got to where they are today.

  It can also mean allowing our youth to do a presentation on "Why Hire Me?" to select members of your staff, particularly your HR staff. Then give our youth real, honest and candid feedback and critiques on their dress, speech, style, etc. to help them improve how to market themselves. These sessions are generally about two hours over lunch at your facility.

Urban Ed can establish a flexible schedule to meet your volunteer needs. Employees should check with their employers to see if an Employee Volunteer Program exist in which you can get time off from work to volunteer at Urban Ed. Please give us a call at 202-610-2344 or email us at volunteers@UrbanEd.org to explore any of these rewarding experiences.

If you are:

• Skilled in a particular area and want to share
• Looking for outcomes-driven volunteering, and
• Want to make a difference

...then complete our Volunteer Application (fill-in form), attach your resume and send to:

Urban Ed, Inc.
Volunteers
2041 Martin Luther King Jr Ave., SE
Suite M-2
Washington DC 20020

Email: volunteers@UrbanEd.org